Complexity Digest 2006.13

27-Mar-2006

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  1. Mathematical Models In Physiology, Phil. Tran. Math. Phy. & Eng.
  2. Towards Self-organizing Bureaucracies, arXiv
  3. You May Unrot Your Mind, Washington Post
  4. Stem Cell Cocktail Could Treat Spinal Injury, New Scientist
    1. Drug Trials: Violent Reaction to Monoclonal Antibody Therapy Remains a Mystery, Science
    2. Synergistic Antitumor Effects of Immune Cell-Viral Biotherapy, Science
  5. Avian Influenza: Studies Suggest Why Few Humans Catch the H5N1 Virus, Science
  6. Half Virus, Half Beast - It's A 20-Sided Freak, New Scientist
  7. 'Executive' Monkeys Influenced By Other Executives, Not Subordinates, ScienceDaily
  8. Warbling Whales Speak A Language All Their Own, ScienceDaily
    1. That's One Weird Tooth - And Other Bulletins On The Elusive Narwhal, Science News
  9. Ride The Celestial Subway, New Scientist
    1. Microwave Data Refine Picture Of Universe, Nature
  10. Mathematical Physics: Going To Ground, Nature
  11. 2020 Computing: Everything, Everywhere, Nature
    1. Exceeding Human Limits, Nature
    2. Science In An Exponential World, Nature
  12. Computers Take On Science's Biggest Challenges: Microsoft Research Predicts, vnunet.com
  13. March Of The Qubits, New Scientist
  14. Tiny Bubbles: Oldest Evidence Yet For Methane Makers, Science News
    1. Evolution: Tracing Oxygen's Imprint on Earth's Metabolic Evolution, Science
    2. The Effect of Oxygen on Biochemical Networks and the Evolution of Complex Life, Science
  15. Mutation Pressure and the Evolution of Organelle Genomic Architecture, Science
  16. Microbial Ecology: How a Marine Bacterium Adapts to Multiple Environments, Science
  17. Mixed Biodiversity Benefits Of Agri-Environment Schemes In Five European Countries, Ecol. Lett.
  18. Climate Change: Greenland Rumbles Louder as Glaciers Accelerate, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Testers Slip Radioactive Materials Over Borders, NY Times
    2. Molecular Manufacturing and 21st Century Policing, KurzweilAI.net
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements

  1. Mathematical Models In Physiology, Phil. Tran. Math. Phy. & Eng. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Computational modelling of biological processes and systems has witnessed a remarkable development in recent years. The search-term (modelling OR modeling) yields over 58000 entries in PubMed, with more than 34000 since the year 2000: thus, almost two-thirds of papers appeared in the last 5-6 years, compared to only about one-third in the preceding 5-6 decades. The development is fuelled both by the continuously improving tools and techniques available for bio-mathematical modelling and by the increasing demand in quantitative assessment of element inter-relations in complex biological systems. (...)
    • Source: Mathematical Models In Physiology, D. Gavaghan, A. Garny, P. Maini, P. Kohl, DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1757, Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering, 2006/03/22
    • Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinayahoo.co.in

  2. Towards Self-organizing Bureaucracies, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    This paper proposes self-organization as a method to improve the efficiency and adaptability of bureaucracies and similar social systems. Bureaucracies are described as networks of agents, where the main design principle is to reduce local "friction" to increase local and global "satisfaction". Following this principle, solutions are proposed for improving communication within bureaucracies, sensing public satisfaction, dynamic modification of hierarchies, and contextualization of procedures. Each of these reduces friction between agents (internal or external), increasing the efficiency of bureaucracies.

  3. You May Unrot Your Mind, Washington Post Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A half-hour of cardio work. An hour hitting the weights. Twenty minutes playing video games. Is this the workout of the future?

    It could be, if the claims Nintendo is making about its "Brain Training" games turn out to be accurate. The games, the first of which is scheduled for U.S. release next month, include a variety of mental exercises the company says are designed to keep aging minds youthful and healthy.

  4. Stem Cell Cocktail Could Treat Spinal Injury, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Stem cells can help restore some function in injured rats with spinal cord damage, suggests a new study.

    The team, led by Michael Fehlings at the Toronto Western Research Institute, Canada, used stem cells taken from mice brains. They injected a finely tuned cocktail of growth hormones, anti-inflammatory drugs and the cells into rats with crushed spines.

    Although rats not given the stem cell treatment naturally regained some of their hind limb function two weeks after the injury, they were extremely uncoordinated. The stem cell treatment improved limb function, although it did not completely restore it.

    1. Drug Trials: Violent Reaction to Monoclonal Antibody Therapy Remains a Mystery, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: It took only minutes to realize that something had gone seriously wrong. On 13 March, six healthy volunteers in a clinical trial were injected with a "superagonist," a drug meant to boost a type of T cell in the immune system, and soon all of them became violently ill. According to relatives and friends last week, the six vomited, collapsed, and passed out; one became bloated "like the Elephant Man," his girlfriend told the press. Two additional participants who had received a placebo showed no ill effects.

    2. Synergistic Antitumor Effects of Immune Cell-Viral Biotherapy, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Targeted biological therapies hold tremendous potential for treatment of cancer, yet their use has been limited by constraints on delivery and effective tumor targeting. We combined an immune effector cell population [cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells] with an oncolytic viral therapy to achieve directed delivery to, and regression of, tumors in both immunodeficient and immunocompetent mouse models. Preinfection of CIK cells with modified vaccinia virus resulted in a prolonged eclipse phase with the virus remaining hidden until interaction with the tumor.

  5. Avian Influenza: Studies Suggest Why Few Humans Catch the H5N1 Virus, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: This week, two research groups are independently reporting results that help explain why the H5N1 avian influenza virus is so lethal to humans but so difficult to spread. Unlike human influenza viruses, the teams report, H5N1 preferentially infects cells in the lower respiratory tract. Residing deep in the airways, the virus is not easily expelled by coughing and sneezing, the usual route of spread. The results "explain a lot of the mysteries" surrounding H5N1, says K. Y. Yuen, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong.

  6. Half Virus, Half Beast - It's A 20-Sided Freak, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: It's a life form so bizarre it took more than a decade just to work out what a Mimivirus is. Puzzle solved? Think again…

    (...) Two years ago, French researchers announced that a mysterious beast plucked from one of the city's cooling towers years previously was something mightily unusual - a giant virus that seemed to break all the rules.

    (...) They normally consist of a few snippets of DNA or RNA wrapped inside a simple protein shell 100 or so nanometres across - no more than what is needed to invade cells, replicate and get out.

  7. 'Executive' Monkeys Influenced By Other Executives, Not Subordinates, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: When high-ranking monkeys are shown images of other monkeys glancing one way or the other, they more readily follow the gaze of other high-ranking monkeys, (...) neurobiologists have discovered. By contrast, they tend to ignore glance cues from low-status monkeys; while low-status monkeys assiduously follow the gaze of all other monkeys. The discovery represents more than a confirmation of what most people believe about their bosses, said the researchers. The findings reveal that gaze-following is more than a reflex action; that it also involves lightning-fast social perception. (...)

  8. Warbling Whales Speak A Language All Their Own, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The songs of the humpback whale are among the most complex in the animal kingdom. Researchers have now mathematically confirmed that whales have their own syntax that uses sound units to build phrases that can be combined to form songs that last for hours. Until now, only humans have demonstrated the ability to use such a hierarchical structure of communication. The research, (...) offers a new approach to studying animal communication, although the authors do not claim that humpback whale songs meet the linguistic rigor necessary for a true language. (...)

    1. That's One Weird Tooth - And Other Bulletins On The Elusive Narwhal, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      The left tooth of a male narwhal develops into a tusk several meters long. It's the only tooth known to spiral. Scientists are taking a new look at this dental marvel and collecting data from radio tags attached to these Arctic whales. G. Williams
      Also, a scanning electron microscope revealed abundant tiny tubules that run from nerve endings near the tooth's core all the way to its surface. Similar tubules lie inside human teeth, but tooth enamel normally protects them from the outside world. When some dental mishap, such as receding gum tissue, exposes these tubules, the human tooth gets sensitive, making a person wince at the chill of a soda.

  9. Ride The Celestial Subway, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Climb aboard the solar system's invisible network and you can travel anywhere, for free

    WHAT is the most efficient route from the Earth to the moon or the planets? According to NASA engineers, the answer is simple. Travel the way Londoners do: go by tube. The idea is not entirely original. Peter Hamilton's recent science-fiction novel Pandora's Star portrays a future in which people travel by train to planets encircling distant stars.

    1. Microwave Data Refine Picture Of Universe, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: From the polarization maps, the team precisely calculated the Universe's 'optical depth', one of the six fundamental properties of the cosmos. This allowed it to estimate that the first stars formed 400 million years after the Big Bang.

      It calculated another basic property, know as the inflation parameter, to be 0.95 with an uncertainty of less than 0.02. Theories of inflation, which hold that the Universe had a dramatic growth spurt in its first moments, predict that the inflation parameter should not be equal to one.

  10. Mathematical Physics: Going To Ground, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: How can one find the minimum total energy of an infinite number of particles? A proof showing that, for certain interactions, periodic 'ground states' exist provides a new perspective on this, one of the oldest questions in physics.

    When deciding how particles move and interact, nature has an affinity for minimum values. (...) In thermodynamics, a collection of particles at a fixed volume and temperature will settle into a state that minimizes the so-called free energy of the system, a quantity that, at absolute zero, reduces to the total energy (...).

  11. 2020 Computing: Everything, Everywhere, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: In their current, mostly desktop, incarnation, computers used for science usually come into their own quite late in the process of inquiry. Questions are asked, the data that might answer them identified, that data gathered ¡X and only then does the computer start to play a role. In the future, this set up could be reversed. Computers could go from being back-office number-crunchers to field operatives. Twenty-four hours a day, year-in, year-out, they could measure every conceivable variable of an ecosystem or a human body, at whatever scale might be appropriate, from the nanometric to the continental.

    1. Exceeding Human Limits, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The collection and curation of data throughout the sciences is becoming increasingly automated. (...) in astronomy automatic data collection leads to more than a terabyte of data per night. (...) It is clear that the future of science involves the expansion of automation in all its aspects: data collection, storage of information, hypothesis formation and experimentation (see table). Future advances will have the ability to yield powerful new forms of science that could blur the boundaries between theory and experiment.

    2. Science In An Exponential World, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: As data volumes grow, it is increasingly arduous to extract knowledge. Scientists must labour to organize, sort and reduce the data, with each analysis step producing smaller data sets that eventually lead to the big picture. Analysing terabytes of data (one terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes) is a challenge; but petabyte data sets (of more than 1,000 terabytes) are on the horizon. One petabyte is equivalent to the text in one billion books, yet many scientific instruments, including the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, will soon be generating several petabytes annually.

  12. Computers Take On Science's Biggest Challenges: Microsoft Research Predicts, vnunet.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: (...) Seemingly intractable issues such as climate change and disease will be addressed by these next-generation systems, according to research published today by Microsoft. (...) The first of these early tools is the emergence of data cubes and intelligent interaction to deal with exponential data growth and data complexity. The second conceptual tool has been called the codification of biology. The third tool has somewhat controversially been called a prediction machine. (...) The fourth is the emergence of so-called robot scientists or artificial scientists. These have the ability to use machine learning, in this case programming as well as Bayesian influence, (...)

  13. March Of The Qubits, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: They said it couldn't be done. They were wrong, says David Deutsch. He is referring to the quest to build a quantum computer - a machine that would exploit the weird properties of quantum mechanics to perform tasks millions of times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers. Such a device would overturn the field of cryptography and revolutionise the computer industry. Deutsch, who drew up the first blueprint for a quantum computer in 1985 thought we were years away, but now the biggest obstacle to quantum computing appears to be solved. The machines are on their way.

  14. Tiny Bubbles: Oldest Evidence Yet For Methane Makers, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    GAS FROM ROCK. Microbes probably produced the methane detected in micrometer-size droplets of water trapped within these grains of quartz (colored by polarized light). Ueno, et al.
    Analyses of the gases dissolved in water trapped in ancient minerals suggest that methane-generating microbes have been around almost 3.5 billion years, more than 700 million years longer than previous geologic evidence had indicated. Because methane prevents the loss of heat from Earth, the gas generated by those microbes could explain how the planet kept warm during the Archaean era even though the sun then produced less than three-fourths the radiation that it does today.

    1. Evolution: Tracing Oxygen's Imprint on Earth's Metabolic Evolution, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Life on Earth created, and is dependent on, nonequilibrium cycles of electron transfers involving primarily five elements: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur (1). Although biophysical and biochemical reactions catalyze specific electron transfers at a local, molecular level, the metabolic consequences are global. Through opportunity and selection, metabolic pathways evolved to form an interdependent, planetary "electron market" where reductants and oxidants are traded across the globe.

    2. The Effect of Oxygen on Biochemical Networks and the Evolution of Complex Life, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis and ensuing oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere represent a major transition in the history of life. Although many organisms retreated to anoxic environments, others evolved to use oxygen as a high-potential redox couple while concomitantly mitigating its toxicity. To understand the changes in biochemistry and enzymology that accompanied adaptation to O2, we integrated network analysis with information on enzyme evolution to infer how oxygen availability changed the architecture of metabolic networks.

  15. Mutation Pressure and the Evolution of Organelle Genomic Architecture, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The nuclear genomes of multicellular animals and plants contain large amounts of noncoding DNA, the disadvantages of which can be too weak to be effectively countered by selection in lineages with reduced effective population sizes. In contrast, the organelle genomes of these two lineages evolved to opposite ends of the spectrum of genomic complexity, despite similar effective population sizes. This pattern and other puzzling aspects of organelle evolution appear to be consequences of differences in organelle mutation rates.

  16. Microbial Ecology: How a Marine Bacterium Adapts to Multiple Environments, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Ahab chased a giant sperm whale through the seas for years. Sallie Chisholm has spent much of her professional career tracking far smaller denizens of the ocean: photosynthetic bacteria called Prochlorococcus. A marine microbiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Chisholm helped discover these microbes 20 years ago. Now, she and her colleagues have charted the distribution of Prochlorococcus across the Atlantic Ocean and found that various strains congregate at different depths and places.

  17. Mixed Biodiversity Benefits Of Agri-Environment Schemes In Five European Countries, Ecol. Lett. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Agri-environment schemes are an increasingly important tool for the maintenance and restoration of farmland biodiversity in Europe but their ecological effects are poorly known. (...) We describe a robust approach to evaluate agri-environment schemes and use it to evaluate the biodiversity effects of agri-environment schemes in five European countries. We compared species density of vascular plants, birds, bees, grasshoppers and crickets, and spiders on 202 paired fields, one with an agri-environment scheme, the other conventionally managed. In all countries, agri-environment schemes had marginal to moderately positive effects on biodiversity. (...)
    • Source: Mixed Biodiversity Benefits Of Agri-Environment Schemes In Five European Countries, D. Kleijn, R. A. Baquero, Y. Clough, M. Díaz, J. De Esteban, F. Fernández, D. Gabriel, F. Herzog, A. Holzschuh, R. Jöhl, E. Knop, A. Kruess, E. J. P. Marshall, I. S.-Dewenter, T. Tscharntke, J. Verhulst, T. M. West, J. L. Yela, DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00869.x, Ecology Letters, Mar. 2006
    • Contributed by Pritha Das - prithadas01ayahoo.com

  18. Climate Change: Greenland Rumbles Louder as Glaciers Accelerate, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Ice sheets are often assumed to respond slowly to climate change, with dynamic response times measured in centuries to millennia. On page 1756 of this issue, however, Ekstr?m et al. (1) describe a dramatic increase in glacial seismicity over the past several years, which coincides with the acceleration of many of Greenland's major outlet glaciers (2-4). The rapidity of these changes counters the view of a sluggishly responding ice sheet and indicates that outlet glacier dynamics can respond swiftly to climate change with consequent increases in sea level.

  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Testers Slip Radioactive Materials Over Borders, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Undercover Congressional investigators successfully smuggled into the United States enough radioactive material to make two dirty bombs, even after it set off alarms on radiation detectors installed at border checkpoints, a new report says. The test, conducted in December by the Government Accountability Office, demonstrated the mixed progress by the Department of Homeland Security, among other federal agencies, in trying to prevent terrorists from smuggling radioactive material into the United States.

    2. Molecular Manufacturing and 21st Century Policing, KurzweilAI.net Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Will nanofactories foster global anarchy? Will nations devolve into a technologically-driven arms race, the winner dominating or destroying the planet with powerful molecular-manufacturing-enabled weapons? Or will the world's Big Brothers grow larger and more tyrannical, using advanced nanotechnology to "protect" their law abiding masses through increasing surveillance, control and internal subjugation? A law-enforcement executive asks the tough questions. Originally published in Nanotechnology Perceptions: A Review of Ultraprecision Engineering and Nanotechnology, Volume 2, No. 1, March 27, 2006. Reprinted with permission on KurzweilAI.net March 29, 2006.

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    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Researchers Find 'Switch' For Brain's Pleasure Pathway, 2006/03/12, ScienceDaily & University of Pittsburgh
      2. IBM Rings Up Name Spelling Checker: How To Know If Bin Laden And Bin Ladin Are The Same Guy?, T. Sanders, 2006/03/17, vnunet.com
      3. Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional and National Open-Access Self-Archiving Mandates, Harnad, Stevan, 2006/03/18, Cogprints
      4. Species Richness Changes Lag Behind Climate Change, R. Menéndez, A. G. Megías, J. K. Hill, B. Braschler, S. G. Willis, Y. Collingham, R. Fox, D. B. Roy, C. D. Thomas, 2006/03/21, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3484
      5. Britannica Lashes Out At Wikipedia Comparison Study: Study By Nature Was 'Fatally Flawed' Says Britannica, T. Sanders, 2006/03/24, vnunet.com
      6. Research Leads To Healthful Strategies For Re-Setting The Body's Clock, 2006/03/24, Innovations-report & Kent State University
      7. You Scratch My Back, I'll Scratch Yours: Chimps Point To Spot They'd Like Groomed, 2006/03/24, ScienceDaily & University of Michigan
      8. Tuning In To How Neurons Distinguish Between Stimuli, M. Inman, Apr. 2006, Online 2006/03/21, Public Library of Science Biology, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040118
      9. Global And Local Mechanisms Of Forebrain And Midbrain Patterning, M. Rhinn, A. Picker, M. Brand - brandampi-cbg.de, Feb. 2006, online 2006/01/18, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2006.01.005
      10. Community-Based Learning In A Time Of Conflict, B. Giri - giribishnurathagmail.com, P. Ravi Shankar, Feb. 2006, online 2006/02/28, Public Library of Science Medicine, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030115
      11. The Rapid Rise Of Supermarkets?, W. Bruce Traill - w.b.traillardg.ac.uk, Mar. 2006, online 2006/03/01, Development Policy Review, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00320.x
      12. Graduate Unemployment: Dilemmas And Challenges In China's Move To Mass Higher Education, L. Bai, Online 2006/03/24, The China Quarterly, DOI: 10.1017/S0305741006000087

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
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      4. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      5. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      6. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      7. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      8. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity 2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, 05/06/09-11
      9. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      10. Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the 65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16
      11. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 05/01/26-30
      12. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      13. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      14. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      15. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      16. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      17. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      18. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      19. Edge Videos

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Spring School in Complexity Science, Southampton, UK, 06/03/29-04/12
      2. ZUMA Advanced Simulation Workshop, Koblenz, 06/04/03-07
      3. BIO-IT World's Life Sciences Conference + Expo, Boston, MA, 06/04/03-05
      4. 18th European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR), Vienna, Austria, 06/04/18-21
      5. 5th Intl Joint Conf on Autonomous Agents And Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006) Future University, Hakodate, Japan, )6/05/08-12
      6. Nonlinearities: from Turbulent to Magic, Copenhagen, Denmark. 06/05/17-20
      7. Intl Wkshp on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing , Lancaster, UK, 06/06/01-02
      8. Alife X - The 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems,Bloomington, Indiana, 06/06/03-07
      9. Intl. Conference on Complex Systems Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      10. 1st Intl Conf on Economic Sciences with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, Univ of Bologna, Italy, 06/06/15-17
      11. NKS 2006: The Wolfram Science Conference, Washington, D.C., 06/06/16-18
      12. Beyond Genome, 8th Annual Systems Biology - Pathway and Disease Modeling, San Francisco, California, 06/06/19-21
      13. Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, Ma, 06/06/25-30
      14. 11th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/07/05-08
      15. 2006 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006), Seattle, Washington, USA, 06/07/08-12
      16. Intl Soc for the Systems Sciences 50th Ann Conf - Complexity, Democracy & Sustainability, Sonoma, California, 06/07/09-14
      17. The 1st Intl Conf on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing: KCPR 2006 , Orlando, Florida USA, 06/07/20-23
      18. Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science, An ICCS Symposium co-located at CogSci 2006, Vancouver , Canada, 06/07/26
      19. 5th World Congress of Biomechanics, Munich, Germany, 06/07/29-08/04
      20. 50th Anniversary Summit of AI, Monte Verita, Switzerland, 06/07/09-14
      21. FIAS Summer School - Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 06/08/05-27
      22. 2006 Intl Conf on Nonlinear Science and Complexity, Beijing, China, 06/08/07-12
      23. Symmetry Festival 2006, Symmetry in Art and Science Education, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/12-18
      24. 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina Del Rey, Ca, U.S.A., 06/08/21-23
      25. World Conference on Social Simulation (WCSS-06) , Kyoto, Japan, 06/08/21-25
      26. 7th Intl Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences (KSS'2006), Beijing, 06/09/22-25.
      27. European Conference on Complex Systems 2006 (ECCS'06), Oxford, England, 06/09/25-29
      28. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 9, The Ninth Intl Conf on the SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR (SAB'06), Roma, Italy, 06/09/25-30
      29. 6th Intl Conf on Simulated Evolution and Learning , Hefei, China, 06/10/15-18
      30. 3rd International Workshop on Complexity and Philisophy, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 07/02/22-23
      31. Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17

    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. Chaos and Complexity Resources for Students and Teachers, 06/03/01
      2. MSc Complexity Science: Systems Thinking from New Biology to Novel Computation, Southampton, UK
      3. Volume Four Complexity and Knowledge Management: Understanding the Role of Knowledge in the Management of Social Networks, ISCE Managing the Complex Book Series
      4. New Issue of Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO), Volume 7 Numbers 3 & 4, 2005 Special Double Issue: Complexity and Storytelling Guest Editors: Ken Baskin & David Boje was published online.

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